› added 10 years ago

101

TIL James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time.

Read more ipl.org

via reddit.com

d8PK7 TIL that Klaus Kinski was so difficult to work with during the filming of "Aguirre" that Werner Herzog had to threaten to shoot him dead if he tried to leave the set.
n88r TIL that polar bears sometimes inter-breed with grizzly bears creating a hybrid bear known as a pizzly bear, a prizzly bear, or a grolar bear
4NRb TIL that today in 1680, the Pueblos of N.M. were joined in unity by their leader Popé to fight against their Spanish oppressors. Known as the Pueblo Revolt, the Pueblos drove off the Spanish for the next 12 years, saving their identity and religion, which was sought to be destroyed at that time.
ro80 TIL that the “slipping on a banana peel” trope originated in the late 1800s, when discarded banana peels were considered a serious public hazard
8eL TIL Ben Stein ardently opposes evolution, going so far to call it “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies.”